the advances in technology
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I bring a phone to talk to my wife and kid once or twice a day when I'm out and that's enough for me!
Phone go's on silent... I cant switch it off incase there's an emergency with my daughter.
I'm working my way towards not using a headtorch and tonight might just use the campfire light, which wont be much as I'm going to see how small I can keep it!
Just me, the dark(ish) and silence
Oh, and a bottle or two of plonk.
I do wonder sometimes how I managed to 'survive' the night-time wilderness as a child with just this!
I'm working my way towards not using a headtorch and tonight might just use the campfire light, which wont be much as I'm going to see how small I can keep it!
Just me, the dark(ish) and silence
Oh, and a bottle or two of plonk.I do wonder sometimes how I managed to 'survive' the night-time wilderness as a child with just this!
I totaly agree.
I am currently working out my notice as a manager of a mobile phone shop, I see this behavoiur all the time and it makes me sad.
Still only one more week to go then its time to organize my new life living in the alps with my wife and daughter
its taken a lot of work to get to this point. Ni more mobile phone sales 
Fit for purpose is how I look on any kit regardless of price. Some here think I'm a tight git which is wrong; I'll spend whatever it costs for a piece of kit that fits my needs.
Use what suits your needs at a price you can afford. Is a £100 pair of trousers really needed? If they are then buy them. I really do now think hard before I buy as in the past when younger and a climber I was a true kit hound... it had to be the 'best'.
Technology? use it or leave it. I for one love technology and am of the opinion that to just use the 'old' ways leads you down the path of re-enactment which is fine too, nothing wrong in that. But, people down the ages have embraced new technology and used it so why should we be different. Use what you like if it gets you outdoors, relaxing and enjoying life.
Use what suits your needs at a price you can afford. Is a £100 pair of trousers really needed? If they are then buy them. I really do now think hard before I buy as in the past when younger and a climber I was a true kit hound... it had to be the 'best'.
Technology? use it or leave it. I for one love technology and am of the opinion that to just use the 'old' ways leads you down the path of re-enactment which is fine too, nothing wrong in that. But, people down the ages have embraced new technology and used it so why should we be different. Use what you like if it gets you outdoors, relaxing and enjoying life.
I'm like most of you so far. It's a mix. I take GPS partly as a safety thing but mostly because I want to play with it and master it (I've got a long way to go though) I'm not into synthetics quite so much for clothing but rucks are another story. As far as cell phones, well that's more of a cultural difference; Where I am if a cell phone (or similar wireless device) still works then you really ain't out in the woods. And I cain't afford a sat-phone.
A good question Drew, though my answer is much the same as many so far.
If it weren't for the trusty old interweb, I'd (we would all) be a lot further behind than I am now - but I do like to research some weird and varied stuff.
I'd like to find more out about the primitive mind set and how early man treated advances in technology (the comic scene of two cavemen talking about a "newfangled" wheel, one saying - "It'll never catch on!", or the idea of binding a knapped point onto a stick to make a spear - when the onlooker comments "Complicated ain't it!") and how he would fare when those advances were no longer available to him.
What changes have gone on to make us so reliant on the gadgets that we "can't" do without.
Ogri the trog
If it weren't for the trusty old interweb, I'd (we would all) be a lot further behind than I am now - but I do like to research some weird and varied stuff.
I'd like to find more out about the primitive mind set and how early man treated advances in technology (the comic scene of two cavemen talking about a "newfangled" wheel, one saying - "It'll never catch on!", or the idea of binding a knapped point onto a stick to make a spear - when the onlooker comments "Complicated ain't it!") and how he would fare when those advances were no longer available to him.
What changes have gone on to make us so reliant on the gadgets that we "can't" do without.
Ogri the trog
Interesting question, and at first thought I was about to claim that I am a Luddite and hate modern tech. (Obviously I am on a laptop typing this - oh the irony!) But when I thought a bit more and spied my Petzl head torch hanging in its usual place, and the SAK on the side (that's a type of tech too) I started to realise that it is all around us. Certainly on Scout camps we are non-tech, but all the leaders carry mobiles.
Hmm, food for thought.
Hmm, food for thought.
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